SF 32 - The Magic of Johan Santana with David Mendelson
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Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 31
Shaggin' Flies
Join Ben Palmer (@benjpalmer) and Zach Hayes (@pinetarkeyboard) of Pitcher List as they talk to some of the most interesting people in the online baseball community about everything BUT the usual, from baseball to music, movies, the meaning of life, and everything beyond.
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SF 31 - Scary Movie 3 and Coors Field Popcorn, Enjoyed With Michael Govier
1 – Podcasting and ENDURANCE and performing 3:30 – I’m TIRED 5:15 – Anne Arundel County 7:45 – NO PLUGS 11:15 – TV News is wild 12:30 – Bamboo Bernie’s! 16 – Fascinating Uber rides 19:30 – Maryland seafood, of course 22 – What the hell is the Illinois state flag? 25 – The Dark Side of the Moon 33 – Why baseball? 37 – Don’t ask about the Coors Field popcorn 40 – The Yoán Moncada Defense Segment 42 – Tiger Stadium and Robert Fick 49 – In praise of Scary Movie 3 52 – The Order of Operations Trifect...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 30
SF 30 - Alex Chamberlain Is A National Hero (Who Loves The Bullpen Cart)
1 – On a floor 😯 2 – Hawaii! 5 – To Fear The Water While Living On An Island 7 – Naming some guys: Erick Aybar; Gary DiSarcina; Darin Erstad; Tim Salmon 10 – Alex Chamberlain, Math Guy 19 – Mark Buehrle love, always worth noting 24 – Zach is a child 26 – Chad Moeller? Yankees backup catcher Chad Moeller? 29 – Taking AP Chem remains one of my biggest regrets 32 – Jim Edmonds inspiring kids to practice diving catches 34 – Freddie Freeman is the second most famous baseball-related alumnus of Alex’...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 29
SF 29 - Sean Anderson Knows Baseball, Springsteen, and a Good Mac & Cheese Recipe
Ben and Zach are fortunate enough to be joined this week by Sean Anderson, former producer at Chicagoland radio station 670 The Score and current host of the Locked On White Sox Podcast, to talk about a million different things that can't possible be condensed into a single paragraph but include, among many other things: hot dogs, Esteban Loaiza, Captain Crunch Berries, why Field of Dreams sucks, and being told at a young age that, plot twist: you're not gonna be a pro sportball player. --------...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 28
SF 28 - We Bought A Clip Show!
Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach In lieu of a guest this week – and because we need to keep the lights on somehow – we put together some of our favorite deep cuts from the first 22 episodes of Shaggin’ Flies. Some of our highlights include, in roughly chronological order: -Michael Ajeto calling the cops on himself -Janice Scurio calls the Cubs flatulent -Sung Min Kim on Tinder -Repeatedly being interrupted by live sports -Scott Chu gets stopped by idiot immigration officials at the Canadian bord...
Jan 22, 2022•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 27
SF 27 - The Many Different Hats Of Chrystal O'Keefe
Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach Ben and Zach are joined this week by their Pitcher List and South Side Sox Colleague Chrystal O'Keefe (@chrystal_ok) for a delightful and rambling several hours that begins in Indianapolis, Indiana and instantly turns every which way imaginable. --- 1 – Opening with Star Wars 7 – SciFis everyone should watch! 10 – Meeting the Firefly cast 14 – What to do in Indy 17 – The Chicago Bulls All Have Covid 21 – Name-a-Pacer 24 – Writing! 25 – Murder? 30 – Writing a kids...
Dec 18, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 26
SF 26 - The Bard College Holiday Throwdown with Howard Megdal
Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach Zach is joined for a special solo session with Howard Megdal (@howardmegdal) of Baseball Prospectus, The IX, and the Next for a lovely ninety-minute conversation about women's sports, Bard College, the Mets, New Jersey, and plenty more baseball. --- 3 – Working in politics, but then not 5 – Mouse! 7 – The Next and The IX 10 – A nearly half-hour tangent about the wonderfulness of women’s sports and the criminality of their underfunding 31 – Name and Image Likeness...
Nov 27, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 25
SF 25 - Live From Sam's Club With Derek Van Riper
Shaggin' Flies: 1 – Barbie! 3 – From Madison to the Bay 4:30 – Boo Daylight Savings 6:30 – DVR is Of Earth 11 – Witnessing the rise of fantasy live from RotoWire 14 – What If We Kissed In The Combination ESPN Zone/Hard Rock Café 19 – The different vibes of fantasy and gambling 22 – Tales from Sam’s Club 27 – Reflections on Oracular Spectacular 31 – Why baseball? Accessability! 38 – Ballparks! 41 – In support of Ballpark Nachos 44 – The Homer Bailey no-no 46 – Order of Operations Trifecta 52 – Ch...
Nov 13, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 24
SF 24 - Do Birds Know That Flying Is Cool? A Conversation With Matthew Roberson
Shagging Flies - Ben and Zach are joined by the wonderful and sharp-witted Matthew Roberson ( @mroberson22 ), formerly of FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, and Lookout Landing but currently of the New York Daily News, for a typically meandering joyride around topics from Seattle suburbs, karaoke, the utility of flying, Mariners fandom, and countless other meaningless asides. Subscribe and enjoy! Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play | RSS | As usual, on names (2) Sammamish Washington (3:30) Tr...
Oct 30, 2021•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 23
SF 23 - Drew Silva Once Copied Hemingway
0 – Ben butters em up real good 5:30 – It is very much NOT all love, dammit 6:30 – Imagine seizing a team from a billionaire and putting it under control of the state via eminent domain 7:30 – We get to our tangent about owners sucking even earlier than usual, and the relitigation—literally—of the Rams’ move from St. Louis to LA. 12 – Jerry Jones DEFINITELY has some really nasty stuff in his emails 15:30 – Married life! 20 – The Drew Silva story 30 – We interrupt the Drew Silva story to report t...
Oct 16, 2021•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 22
SF 22 - Performing and Infinity with Ellen Adair
1:30 – Zach is weary of society and also on a delay 4 – How are you? 5:30 – We are all just hurtling through space on a tiny rock 8:15 – A pair of life coaches 9 – The podcast has in fact started and we are seven minutes and 30 seconds into it 10:15 – The Ellen Adair story begins in Philadelphia, which is how one becomes a Phillies fan, as few people willingly choose it 12:30 – Ben lobs out possibly the worst borough-related joke ever told 15 – Nepotism, etc 16:30 – Ellen Adair is NOT Ellen Adai...
Sep 24, 2021•2 hr 33 min•Ep. 21
SF 21 - Sara Sanchez Debates Debate
1 – Do people actually care about the Crosstown Classic? 3 – The Sara Sanchez story, originating in Utah 5 – Michael Hermosillo robs Andrew Vaughn of a home run, and Zach forgets that the game he was just watching is not at Wrigley Field 6 – On Wrigley Field 10:30 – Things we don’t like: running baseball teams like McKinsey consultants 15 – The walking elote at the park formerly known as U.S. Cellular field is the best food in baseball, including the crab dip waffle fries 15:45 – Sara knows what...
Sep 16, 2021•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 20
SF 20 - A Day in the Life of a Plant Doctor with KC Bubba
2 – a long intro on names, how they’re pronounced, and where they come from 11:30 – Kansas City is cool 13 – What’s in Delaware? 15 – The origin story 23 – has dived 25 – what matters is you 30 – golf 35 – brian the plant doctor 41 – why baseball 52 – on will clark 55 – ballparks 58 – malort 1:01 – commissioner bubba 1:09 – order of operations trifecta 1:14 – we lose ben and it’s pretty funny 1:19 – strong opinions on baseball movies 1:22 – déjà vu is not a ghost but it’s something 1:26 – on met...
Aug 30, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 19
SF 19 - Justin Mason Is Not A Freemason (But It Runs In The Family)
1 – Let’s cut the BS y’all, fantasy sports are gambling 2 – Straight into the deep end with ten minutes about gambling, DFS, fantasy sports, and being an analyst 13 – Who Is Justin Mason? 15 – From D.C. to the Army to NorCal! 17 – Mission Accomplished!!1!1! 19 – On addiction and recovery 21 – Disclaimer! 25 – On the importance of being yourself in your writing 26 – Taking over for Eno Sarris, no pressure 27 – What. Is. The. Deal. With. Those. Shirts? 30:30 – When someone approaches you to talk a...
Aug 05, 2021•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 18
SF 18 - Sarah Griffin Can Name All The Presidents In Order
Enjoy episode 18 of Shaggin' Flies, featuring Sarah Griffin (@skg_18), whose work you can find here , as we cover an uncountable number of completely inane topics, including: 1:15 – Ben begins the pod with a handy lesson on figuring out how to deal with delays 2:00 – Silver the 20-year old calico cat sets a new record for podcast interruption 3:20 – Why have we non-Massholes probably heard of Watertown, MA? 😳 5:30 – Ben just now learns that Zach lived in Providence until last October; Sarah ind...
Jul 22, 2021•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 17
SF 17 - Max Greenfield Has Many Thoughts About Baseball
In Which Zach Accidentally Deletes The Word Doc With All The Episode Notes So, Here's A Recording Of Game Four Of The 2005 World Series Instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaAsMEN7qbA Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 08, 2021•2 hr 24 min•Ep. 16
SF 16 - Connor Newcomb Brings Insider Takes on Joe Buck and The Magic of Play-By-Play
2:45 – Plugs and gassing up 4:15 – The history of Locked On Orioles 6 – In Praise of the Google Form 7:30 – Making it through the pandemic with the 2012 MLB playoffs 12:15 – Love to Odrisamer Despaigne 15:15 – College and minor league broadcasting is pretty cool! 17 – Ode to the Bowie Baysox 21 – How times have changed since Matt Wieters 25:15 – Trying thing in college is cool 29 – You gotta remember your best calls 31 – In appreciation of radio broadcasting 35:15 – I Am Once Again Asking Announ...
Jun 17, 2021•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 15
SF 15 - Patrick Ellington Talks Film Noir, Minor League Baseball, and Still Hating Joakim Noah
3 – Cleveland gets a bad rap! 5 – Why do we all hate Cleveland again? 6:30 – CC is the goat 9 – The Black MLB Players you need to know about series 9:30 – Aaaaand he’s gone 11:30 – The Lindor trade is a garbage thing to have to write a second article about 17 – Jumping from film to journalism and all similar creative endeavors 21 – Behind Tangible_Uno, aka, we all get in trouble for pissing off Curt Schilling 23 – In support of Alice in Chains 26 – Favorite Anime/Manga 28 – Bad wifi will be the ...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 14
SF 14 - Who Is This Nick Pollack Guy Anyway?
2:00 – Opening with good vibes by remembering the time Nick forgot to record Zac Gallen’s side of a podcast interview 5:00 – Reminiscing on the Slack days 6:00 – Pitcher List meetup! 6:45 – Nick is from Brooklyn but doesn’t have an accent 7:30 – Nick puts a watermelon inside of a stroller to fit in in Brooklyn 9:00 – What if it was a Doberman in a stroller instead of a "pocket dog" 👀 11:30 – Shoutout to all the other Psych majors/CompSci minors 12:30 – Let's be clear—Midnight Agenda is a booty ...
Jun 03, 2021•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 13
SF 13 - DJ Short And Ben Palmer Walk Into The Combination Wilco/My Morning Jacket/Bob Dylan Concert
1 – Anthony Santander appreciation 3 – Shoutout William Henry Harrison 7 – Answering emails as a fantasy analyst is different when you have kids 9 – Imposter syndrome! 11 – Cursed league 12 – Tony Kornheiser: JUST DO IT 13 – Y’all don’t wanna know what my DMs look like 14 – The Story of DJ 15 – Ben begins a forty minute mid-podcast game of fetch 18 – Yes, Dear was an underrated sitcom 19 – The animals run the show here 20 – The Joy of college radio 25:45 – Echoooo 28 – Turn up at Salisbury 32:30...
May 28, 2021•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 12
SF 12 - Justin Choi Is A Lot Cooler At 20 Than Most Of Us Were
0:00 – I remembered to hit record the first time this week! All the note times are like 45 seconds behind but whatever. 1:00 – WashU! Great school! 4:00 – A bit of history about Justin’s life 7:00 – Seoul is big 9:30 – Aspects of the KBO/in defense of singles 14:00 – The strikeout/homer debate, part 3579767 18:00 – The difference between analyzing hitters and pitchers 21:45 – Hitting is like dieting (but on the metric system) 24:00 – Corey Seager panned out a lot better than either Matt Wieters ...
May 20, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 11
SF 11 - Bradford William Davis Talks Baseball, New York, Great Editors, and the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man Trilogy
The title says it all—this week, Ben and Zach are joined by Insider investigations writer and former New York Daily News baseball columnist Bradford William Davis, who took the time to talk about everything from Queens to DC and back. Check out the timestamps for some details, or hints, depending on how you take them: 2:30 - Forest Hills, Queens; Tennis and Peter Parker 7:15 - Simon and Garfunkel went to high school with Peter Parker 8 - Defending the Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire Spider-Mans (1 and 2...
May 13, 2021•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 10
SF 10 - Deep Cuts I: Best of Episodes 1-7
Ben and Zach are on a break this week, so we're delivering you a selection of some of the best moments from the first seven editions of Shaggin' Flies, featuring six of our friends from all around the baseball internet. Our pods run pretty long—if you're reading this, you know—so there are a lot of cool little nuggets near the back of these conversations that deserve some more air time. Guests include, respectively: Alex Fast (2:30), Chris Paul Towers (9:35), Michael Ajeto (20:30), Janice Scurio...
May 08, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 9
SF 8 - Chelsea Ladd Loves High School Sports (and The Bell Jar)
Shaggin’ Flies is joined this third week of April 2021 by Dugout Dish founder and Paducah Sun sports reporter Chelsea Ladd (@chelseabrooke), who was kind enough to chat with us about everything from career choices to covid to crying to high school baseball to the minors to the majors to LSU to the Brewers and Mets and Dodgers and Mike Piazza and moonshine and TONS of other stuff you’ll find in the notes below! :02 - Chelsea has a new job! :03 - Opening thoughts: knowing clicks on the internet is...
Apr 21, 2021•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 8
SF 7 - Sung Min Kim is Very Thoughtful about MLB as Opera, KBO as Rock Concert, Tinder, and the University of Maryland
This lovely spring week of April 15th, Shaggin' Flies is joined from Seoul, South Korea by Sung Min Kim, brilliant baseball mind, former Lotte Giants front office member, and journalist whose work has appeared at Deadspin, The Washington Post, FanGraphs, and The Athletic for a two-and-a-half hour journey meandering from life in Korea and the United States, the (sometimes) guilty pleasure of intoxicated McDonalds, his forthcoming MS in Sports Business, and of course, his body of work across Ameri...
Apr 15, 2021•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 7
SF 6 - The Comfort of Numbers and Pedro Martinez with Shelly Verougstraete
This week, Ben and Zach are joined by the one and only Shelly Verougstraete (ShellyV_643) of Pitcher List, Dynasty Guru, and Over the Monster for big ol' conversation that starts with the silent letters in her last name and winds up at the show's second reference to Churro Cinnamon Toast Crunch, with a few asides about Fenway, ghost hunting, the joy of prospecting, and the occupationally-inspired names of small towns in Virginia ending in -ville. Enjoy! 0:01 - The heartbreak of being an Orioles ...
Apr 08, 2021•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 6
SF 5 - Janice Scurio on Power Tools, Peloton, and the Adley Rutschman Multiverse
Ben and Zach talk to Janice Scurio (@scuriiosa) of Baseball Prospectus and NBC Sports Edge for a good long talk about her work as a librarian, entering the baseball writing world, covering the White Sox (and a no-hitter!) in a pandemic, and many things Chicago-related and otherwise. The following times are approximate but they'll get you in the general vicinity: 0:03 - The support group for wealthy people 0:06 - The Dewey Decimal System 0:10 - When being a librarian involves power tools 0:18 - W...
Mar 25, 2021•2 hr 46 min•Ep. 5
SF 4 - Michael Ajeto Explains The Brain
Ben and Zach are joined by Michael Ajeto (@dysthymikey), Pitcher List and Lookout Landing contributor and counselor extraordinaire, for a lengthy conversation that begins with 45 minutes of mental health talk (with a content warning regarding suicidal ideation and other symptoms) before meandering everywhere from our own names to the depths of our own brains. Anyway, some other highlights include: 0:00 - Our many names 0:15 - Growing up in the Pacific Northwest 0:25 - On psychology, mental healt...
Mar 11, 2021•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 4
March 4th, 2021 - Chris Towers on Wilco, Mofongo, and the 2003 Marlins
CBS Sports and CBS Fantasy analyst Chris Paul Towers (@CTowersCBS) joins Ben and Zach for a long and winding road of a discussion that includes pop funkos, living in South Florida, being in the Miami Herald print room during Osama bin Laden's capture, covering Isiah Thomas's ill-fated coaching run at FIU, why Paul McCartney and London Calling reign supreme, and finally, in a direct rebuke of Episode 1 guest Alex Fast, why Flea is an overrated bassist. Enjoy! Follow Shaggin' Flies on Twitter @Sha...
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 3
February 25th, 2021 - Jake Ciely Brings DuckTales to PitchCon
Senior Fantasy Writer for The Athletic Jake Ciely (@allinkid) joins Ben and Zach LIVE at PitchCon 2021 to cover serious and urgent topics including DuckTales (original and reboot), Jack Bauer, having it out for Evan Engram, working at a deli, getting cold called by Tony Kornheiser, and most importantly, a lengthy defense of the practice of putting milk in the bowl BEFORE cereals. Click here to watch the Shaggin' Flies live show at PitchCon 2021! Follow Shaggin' Flies on Twitter @ShagginFliesPL E...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 2
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